Hi
So this may sound stupid, but how do you recruit for your guiild. I left for 8 months and came back and lo and behold am now a gm. I want to rebuild the guild I have inherited but dont know how. Pre shadowlands was easy to recruti. A few posts in citys and we could get members. Now the chat channels seem dead. Am I missing something? What happened?
Ah, the poisoned chalice that is GMing. I don’t envy you that!
Some people recruit via forums, others via Trade channels, there’s the in-game guild finder option, external sites such as wowprogress, etc.
<— Guild master for 3 years, currently retired from GM’ing but still a member of that guild.
Before doing anything make sure you understand what kind of guild you want to make and why. Is it a PvP guild? A raiding guild? A social guild? Whose friends are in it and why should they come? M+ guild? Competition, hardcore, casual? Time commitment? Etc.
I’ll take my guild as an example: We raid 2 nights a week at Mythic in order to accomodate people who have had a lot of time to raid in the past but, due to various IRL commitments, simply cannot do so any more. That means there’s a lot of “latent skill”, that is we re-unlock experience and potential to play in a high-end but casual manner.
What does that mean? It means we expect good performance and good attendance, however we don’t play all the time so you can have a job and wife and kids on the side, and you should not fear losing your spot due to logging in less - so long as you know how to play.
What do you aim to achieve? We also ways go for all Mythic bosses, but with the caveat that we might not make it - but we’ll get close at the very least!
Once you know what you’re about you need to advertise! People need to know that you exist so they can read about why they should join and how to join.
Advertise on: www.mmo-champion.com
Advertise on: raider.io
Advertise on: wowprogress.com (if you raid)
Advertise on: Guild recruitment on this board - not likely to do much but might as well
Advertise on: trade channel. You can link information about the guild into the trade chat. Use a macro and just click it once or twice whenever you’re in a major city
As Garaidh says, being a guild master can be tough work, so: Delegate, delegate, delegate! Different people are good at different things, and if you trust each other to do what you’re good at each of you, a greater whole will emerge. Make sure you hold regular meetings with your fellow officers (e.g. 10 minutes after raid hours or something twice a week) to update if there are complaints or other issues and to just assess the situation.
Discords can really help tie things together.
And that was basically my entire bucket list. There are a few more things you can do, but doing those things is a very solid foundation.
Also advertise on your realm forum in addition to the list above.
You can also use the in game guild advertising tool.
In BFA there seemed to be a way to whisper random people based on a criteria you could set. I don’t know whether it was a mod or whatever which enabled that behavior. But I would get so many anonymous whispers from guild inviters while I was solo dungeon grinding for mounts and transmogs.
Build a brand. Way too many guilds use generic recruitment messages. Make sure yours stand out and stick.
We were down to 5 or so members when I got involved in my guild and now hover between 700 and 900 chars regularly.
mmmmm could you explore on what you mean by building a brand. The guild will be mainly pve. very casual raiding and social with fun runs etc.
I think that is a mod. I really dont want to /w spam people, although I may have to ;(
If you want a big guild use the addon where you invite players random. Maybe that is the way to go and then start some raid nights. If you go advertising only , it will take alot of time. You properly get 1 ir 5 players and they might be gone tommorow because the guild is not growing fast enough for social aspect or raids or pvp. I can tell you that I build up a guild both ways and the random adon was the best and much faster. I got 600 players within a week. I think still SUPER GUILD INVITE still works, but not sure. A side is that many also turned trade chat or other chat off so where would they see you adverts?
hi i did think of that but it feels like so much spam tbh may have toi resort to it. We dont want a massive guild just enough to have 10-20 on a peak times and enough for people too group etc… Also could you tell me which addon u mean. I only know super guild inv.
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